Interdisciplinary Approach: How to get Yourself Involved

Aim: The goal of the seminar is to familiarize about the notion ‘necessity of interdisciplinary knowledge for smoothing, enriching learning experience with wider touch to domain specific knowledge and enhancing understanding of oneself as well as one's own subject through mutual learning'.

Objective: This seminar will provide a great opportunity to interact all of the students and faculties of JNU from various disciplines. It would help to enrich the knowledge and a greater understanding not only of its own discipline and the inter-linkages of different dimension of knowledge.

What shall we do in the seminar?

            We will have some lectures by eminent faculties and others to help to understand the relevance/importance of interdisciplinary approach through mutual learning in the world of academia.

What to achieve?

            Motivate people who can venture into learning and understanding of different subjects and eventually are more effective in making understanding of subject from different aspects and also may be able to deliver the same to the society in efficient manner.

            The forum may receive more attention, volunteers and can gain the momentum so that it can work more efficiently and prove more fruitful to the JNU community.

Date: 5th April 2013 

Time: 9.30 am - 5 pm

Venue: SSS-I Committee Room, School Of Social Sciences, 

Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Celluloid Cinephilia: Film Society Cultures in India

Abstract

 This paper intends to narrate the unexplored history of the film society movement in India. It is an attempt to revisit a moment of organized cinephilia that was primarily centered on the appreciation of International and Indian art cinemas as well as the Indian New Wave movement. The period from the early 1960s through the 1970s is referred to as the high moment of such cultural activity marked by debates on the art and craft of cinema, institutional support from the government combined with increasing success in terms of screenings and memberships, which eventually waned out by the mid 1980s.  By examining the inception histories of significant film societies of the movement, specifically from Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay, Patna and Bangalore, this paper will map the collaborations and networks through which films were accessed, circulated and viewed as an alternative to the prevalent mainstream cinemas. Looking at stories and memories of film society members, this paper argues that the circulation of the celluloid film object and peoples’ experiences around it were as crucial to the momentum of the film society movement as the content of the alternative cinemas that was preferred. Therefore, this paper uses the prism of cinephilia to generate the variant film cultures engendered by film societies as they endeavored to make meaning of cinema and its relationship to modern society.

     Speaker:  

Abhija Ghosh, Research Scholar, Cinema Studies, SAA, JNU

Venue:  Committee Room, JNU Central Library

Date and Time: 22^nd March 2013 (Friday), 4:30 pm